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Nature's Prophet 21 + 2.6 22 + 3.6 23 + 3.7
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 200 620 1340 2100 2400 Health regen 0 2.1 5.74 9.54 11.04 Mana 75 351 963 1551 1803 Mana regen 0 1.15 3.74 6.19 7.22 Armor 0 3.67 12.07 20.07 23.4 Att/sec 0.59 0.72 1.01 1.3 1.41 Damage 27‒37 50‒60 101‒111 150‒160 171‒181
Magic resistance 25% ▶️ Movement speed 295 ▶️ Attack speed 100 Turn rate 0.6 Vision range 1800/800 Attack range 600 Projectile speed 1125 Attack animation 0.4+0.6 Base attack time 1.7 Damage block 0 Collision size 24 Legs 2  Gib type Wood

Nature's Prophet is a ranged intelligence hero, whose play style is different from most intelligence heroes, because he can be almost anywhere at any given time with his Teleportation. This ability allows him to participate in most ganks and pushes at a moment's notice. With Sprout, he creates a ring of trees, trapping anyone within them in place, serving to disable anyone caught within them. The trees around him serve as his objects of power; using them, he summons sentient tree beings known as Treants from trees on the map with his Nature's Call ability. Wrath of Nature is the main and only directly damaging spell in his arsenal, but it can potentially be very powerful, as it can inflict increased damage with each bounce off subsequent enemies and can clear out multiple creep waves with its moderate cooldown and mana cost. Commonly played as a ganker, offlaner and jungler and known as a strong pusher, Nature's Prophet has superb farming capabilities and global presence, giving him the power to be anywhere on the map. Late-game, Nature's Prophet makes himself useful by constantly distracting and annoying the enemy team by pushing. If attention is not given to him, he can single-handedly win the game by constantly taking several towers or even the Ancient.

Bio

Nature's Prophet

▶️ "I woke within the seed and saw my destiny, and many were its branches."

Lore:

When Verodicia, Goddess of the Woods, had finished filling in the green places, having planted the coiled-up spirit in the seed, having lured the twining waters from deep within the rock, having sworn the sun its full attention to the growing things, she realized that her own time had reached its end, and like one of the leaves whose fate she had imprinted in the seed, she would fall without seeing the fruiting of her dream. It pained her to leave the world bereft, for the sprouts had not yet broken through the soil--and they would be tender and vulnerable to every sort of harm. She found in her seed pouch one last seed that she had missed in the sowing. She spoke a single word into the seed and swallowed it as she fell. Her vast body decomposed throughout the long winter, becoming the humus that would feed the seedlings in the spring. And on the morning of the vernal equinox, before the rest of the forest had begun to wake, that last seed ripened and burst in an instant. From it stepped Nature's Prophet, in full leaf, strong and wise, possessing Verodicia's power to foresee where he would be needed most in defense of the green places--and any who might be fortunate enough to call him an ally.

Voice:

Eric Newsome (Responses)

Abilities

Greater Treant
Summon
Level 2 Duration 60 Health 1650 ( 2475) Health regeneration 0.5 Armor 0 Magic resistance 0% Status resistance 0% Attack damage 102‒114 ( 129/141/153/165‒141/153/165/177) Acquisition range 500 Attack range 100 Base attack time 1.4 Attack animation 0.467+0.533 Movement speed 360 Follow range 100 Turn rate 0.5 Collision size 16 Vision range 500 (G) Bounty 18‒24 Experience 30 Model scale 1.2

Sprout

▶️▶️QT

Ability
Target Point / Target Unit

Sprouts a ring of trees around a unit, trapping it in place, and providing vision in a 500 radius.

Cast Animation: 0.35+0.44

Cast Range: 625/700/775/850

Trees Spawn Radius: 150

Duration: 3/4/5/6

 Number of Greater Treants: 2

11/10/9/8 ( 8.8/8/7.2/6.4)

70/90/110/130

Causes the first two trees destroyed with Sprout to summon Greater Treants. Can only have two Greater Treants alive.

Cannot directly target spell immune enemies, targets ground instead. Can target spell immune allies.

Blocked fully only when directly targeted. Does not block when ground targeted.

Modifiers

modifier_furion_sprout_shard: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_treant_bonus: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_furion_sprout_marker: Dispellable with death only.

Verdant overgrowth is a common ailment reported by Nature's Prophet's attackers.

Notes:

• Can directly be cast on any unit which is not a building or a ward and not invulnerable or hidden.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.

• Creates a planted tree on every 45°th of a 150 radius circle, resulting in 8 trees forming a ring and trapping the targeted unit.
  • Trees created with Sprout act exactly like the other trees on the map. They block vision, pathing and interact with spells the same way.
  • Sprout trees have a different model and are smaller than other trees on the map and they do not have a dying animation.
  • Tango heals for twice as long when targeting a Sprout tree.

• Destroying one tree is enough to allow units to walk in and out of the ring of trees.

• Sprout grants 500 range flying vision around the targeted point for its duration.

• Cannot be directly cast on ancient creeps and creep-heroes.

• Units not controlled by any player do not try to path around the Sprout trees, but simply walk against them as if they are not there.
  • This effectively causes them to get stuck, until they change directions.

• With Aghanim's Shard, Sprout trees summon Greater Treants upon getting destroyed.
  • If Nature's Call is not learned, no Greater Treants are spawned.
  • In Ability Draft, Nature's Call must be drafted as well for the Greater Treants to spawn.
  • Only the first 2 trees of Sprout that get destroyed summon the Greater Treants. All remaining trees of that cast do not.
  • It does not matter how the trees are destroyed, expiring Sprout trees summon them as well.
  • If there are Greater Treants alive from a previous cast, they get instantly killed new ones are summoned.

Teleportation

▶️▶️WR

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Self

Teleports to any point on the map.

Cast Animation: 3+0

Cast Range: Global

65/50/35/20 ( 52/40/28/16)

50

Modifiers

modifier_teleporting: Dispellable with death only.

The Prophet keeps his sentinel over the forest, protecting it when in need.

Notes:

• Disjoints projectiles upon teleporting.

• ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets the team's fountain.

• Unlike the teleports from Town Portal Scroll and Boots of Travel, canceling this one does not consume the cooldown and mana.

• During the cast time, a visual effect is created around Nature's Prophet and at the target location. These visual effects are visible to everyone.

• Also plays a sound at the target location, however, this is only audible to enemies when Nature's Prophet is visible to them.

Treant
Summon
Level 2 Duration 60 Health 550 ( 1375) Health regeneration 0.5 Armor 0 Magic resistance 0% Status resistance 0% Attack damage 16/24/32/40‒20/28/36/44 ( 43/63/83/103‒47/67/87/107) Acquisition range 500 Attack range 100 Base attack time 1.6 Attack animation 0.467+0.533 Movement speed 300/320/340/360 Follow range 100 Turn rate 0.5 Collision size 16 Vision range 500 (G) Bounty 8 Experience 12 Model scale 0.8

Nature's Call

▶️EF

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Trees

Converts an area of trees into Treants under the command of Nature's Prophet.

Cast Animation: 0.5+1.23

Cast Range: 750

Radius: 150/225/300/375 ( 275/350/425/500)

Number of Treants: 2/3/4/5 ( 7/8/9/10)

Treant Duration: 60

37 ( 29.6)

130/140/150/160

Modifiers

modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_treant_bonus: Dispellable with death only.

Verodicia bestowed the Prophet with the ability to summon the Treant Guard, a mythical sentient army of the wild.

Notes:

• Nature's Call can only create as many treants as there are trees in the targeted area.

• Destroys all trees in the target area, regardless of how many treants are created.

• Treants always spawn at the center of the area.

• Must have at least 1 tree within its area to be castable. Targeting an area without trees gives an error message.
  • However, if trees within the targeted area disappear during the cast time, the ability is not canceled, wasting mana and cooldown.

• Despite the description, the level 25 talent does not multiply the health and damage values by 2.5.
  • Instead, it adds 825 health and 27/39/51/63 min/max attack damage to the Treants and Greater Treants.
  • This effectively increases the health and average attack damage for the regular Treants by 2.5x, but not that of Greater Treants.
  • This also causes the attack damage of Greater Treants to start scaling with the ability's level.

Wrath of Nature

▶️▶️RW

Ability
Target Point / Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Damaging energy bounces around the map, striking enemies close to the cast point that are in vision. Each enemy hit beyond the first adds damage. Enemies that die under this spell grant you bonus damage for 50 seconds.

Cast Animation: 0.5+0.97

Cast Range: Global

Bounce Distance: Global

Number of Bounces: 18

Damage Increment per Bounce: 10%

Base Damage: 115/150/185 ( 145/180/215)

Attack Damage Bonus per Kill: 4/5/6

Attack Damage Bonus Duration: 50

 Min Root Duration: 2

 Max Root Duration: 3.8

85 ( 68) ( 60,  48)

175/225/275

Lowers cooldown from 85 to 60. Entangles all enemies it hits. Duration scales from 2 up to 3.8 seconds at max bounce.

Blocked fully only when directly targeted. Does not block when ground targeted.

Modifiers

modifier_furion_wrath_of_nature_thinker: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_furion_wrathofnature_buff: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_furion_wrathofnature_buff_counter: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_furion_sprout_entangle: Dispellable with any dispel.

Nature's Prophet calls Verodicia's fury to strike down those who might ravage the wilderness.

Notes:

• Wrath of Nature can be cast on the ground. It automatically jumps on the closest visible enemy.

• Bounces in 0.25-second intervals, so hitting all targets takes 4.25 seconds. Each bounce increases the current damage by 10%.

• Does not bounce on Couriers, invisible units or units in the Fog of War.

• Can never hit the same unit twice per cast.

• This is how much damage each bounce deals on each level (before reductions):

Level 1: 115 / 126.5 / 139.2 / 153.1 / 168.4 / 185.2 / 203.7 / 224.1 / 246.5 / 271.2 / 298.3 / 328.1 / 360.9 / 397 / 436.7 / 480.4 / 528.4 / 581.2

Level 2: 150 / 165 / 181.5 / 199.7 / 219.7 / 241.7 / 265.9 / 292.5 / 321.8 / 354 / 389.4 / 428.3 / 471.1 / 518.2 / 570 / 627 / 689.7 / 758.7

Level 3: 185 / 203.5 / 223.9 / 246.3 / 270.9 / 298 / 327.8 / 360.6 / 396.7 / 436.4 / 480 / 528 / 580.8 / 638.9 / 702.8 / 773.1 / 850.4 / 935.4

• With the base damage increasing talent, this is how much damage each bounce deals (before reductions):

Level 1: 145 / 159.5 / 175.5 / 193.1 / 212.4 / 233.6 / 257 / 282.7 / 311 / 342.1 / 376.3 / 413.9 / 455.3 / 500.8 / 550.9 / 606 / 666.6 / 733.3

Level 2: 180 / 198 / 217.8 / 239.6 / 263.6 / 290 / 319 / 350.9 / 386 / 424.6 / 467.1 / 513.8 / 565.2 / 621.7 / 683.9 / 752.3 / 827.5 / 910.3

Level 3: 215 / 236.5 / 260.2 / 286.2 / 314.8 / 346.3 / 380.9 / 419 / 460.9 / 507 / 557.7 / 613.5 / 674.9 / 742.4 / 816.6 / 898.3 / 988.1 / 1086.9

• All bounces together can collectively deal up to 5243.9/6839.9/8435.8 ( 6611.9/8207.9/9803.8) damage (before reductions).

• The caster receives one stack of attack damage for each enemy killed by Wrath of Nature.
  • To gain a stack, enemies have to die to the damage. Killing an enemy with the Wrath of Nature debuff does not grant a stack.
  • Each instance has its own independent duration.
  • The status buff shows the current amount of damage the stack provides. There is no stack limit.

• This is how much attack damage Wrath of Nature can grant with a certain amount of stacks on each level:
  • Level 1: 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 40 / 44 / 48 / 52 / 56 / 60 / 64 / 68 / 72 
  • Level 2: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 
  • Level 3: 6 / 12 / 18 / 24 / 30 / 36 / 42 / 48 / 54 / 60 / 66 / 72 / 78 / 84 / 90 / 96 / 102 / 108 

• With Aghanim's Scepter, Wrath of Nature roots and disarms all hit enemies and provides True Sight over them.
  • The duration starts at 2 and increases by 0.106 seconds per bounce.
  • This results in a duration of 2/2.11/2.21/2.32/2.42/2.53/2.64/2.74/2.85/2.95/3.06/3.17/3.27/3.38/3.48/3.59/3.7/3.8 seconds from the 1st to the 18th bounce.

Talents

Hero Talents
2.5x Treant HP/Damage	25	Removed Teleportation Cooldown
20% Cooldown Reduction	20	+8 Armor
+5 Treants Summoned	15	+25 Attack Speed
+30 Wrath of Nature Base Damage	10	+20 Damage

Notes:

• This attack damage talent is added as raw attack damage.
  • Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

• The cooldown reduction talent stacks multiplicatively with other sources cooldown reduction.

• The armor talent does not benefit illusions.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Nature's Prophet/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.29b

• Increased movement speed from 290 to 295.
• Increased Treant attack damage from 16-22/22-26/28-32/34-38 to 16-22/24-28/32-36/40-44.

7.29

• Increased Teleportation cooldown from 50/40/30/20 to 65/50/35/20.
• Rescaled Treant attack damage from to 20-24/24-28/28-32/32-36 to 16-22/22-26/28-32/34-38.
• Wrath of Nature
  • Increased base damage from 110/140/170 to 115/150/185.
  • Reduced damage increase per bounce from 11% to 10%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Wrath of Nature
    • Increased minimum root duration from 1.6 to 2.
    • Increased maximum root duration from 3.4 to 3.8.
• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +25 Wrath of Nature base damage increased to +30.

Level 25 left talent: 2x Treant health/attack damage increased to 2.5x.

7.28c

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Greater Treant base attack time from 1 to 1.4.

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango provides health regeneration for Nature's Propet to survive his lane.
• Healing Salve restores health as well.
• Clarity restores mana to Nature's Prophet so he can continually use his spells in the early game, particularly Nature's Call, as his base intelligence and comparatively costly spells means that he will otherwise quickly run out.
• Iron Branch is a cheap attribute item that can shore up Nature's Prophet's health, damage, and mana.

Early game:

• Magic Stick provides burst health and mana, which can give him the survivability to escape an enemy gank or enough mana to cast one more spell.
• Boots of Speed provide Nature's Prophet with a boost to his movement speed, important for catching up to enemies to cast his spells during ganks. While he has strong global mobility in Teleportation, having enough speed to re-position during fights is crucial.
• Town Portal Scroll augments Nature's Prophet's global mobility. While Teleportation already grants him global presence without the need to target his destination at an allied building, a Town Portal Scroll allows him to zip between front and backline, defending a tower or ganking.

Mid game:

• Magic Wand provide additional attribute bonuses to Nature's Prophet, and give him even more burst health and mana regeneration. A fully-charged Magic Wand can give Nature's Prophet enough mana to cast any of his spells even when completely empty.
• Power Treads provide Nature's Prophet with a boost to his attributes and additional attack speed. The attributes allow him to give himself more health, or mana and base damage.
• Shadow Blade gives Nature's Prophet more initiation and escape ability, augmenting his already formidable global presence due to Teleportation. Used offensively, Nature's Prophet can get in a powerful first strike on unwary enemies prior to disabling and focusing them down. Used defensively, the invisibility and increased movement speed allow him to evade any enemy rotations aimed at halting his pushes, and can allow him to invisibly cast Teleportation.

Late game:

• Orchid Malevolence is a powerful early aggression tool. Its low cost and easy buildup make it possible to obtain quickly in the early game, while the bonuses it provides augment Nature's Prophet's physical attacks and allow him to gank enemies to great effect by silencing them. The augmented mana regeneration also allows him to stay out in the field longer without needing to return to base as often.
• Nullifier complements Orchid Malevolence's silence with its dispel that shutdowns enemy's disengage options and slows them for you to catch up, nullifying the risk when going in combat against a dangerous enemy.
• Assault Cuirass is a very powerful offensive and pushing item. By boosting his attack speed and inflicting the enemy units, including towers, with a negative armor aura, auto attacks become much deadlier. Increased armor also gives him survivability against physical damage.

Situational items:

• Hand of Midas, if obtained early, can greatly augment his late-game potential by accelerating gold and experience gain at the cost of early-game aggression. As well, the bonus attack speed will make use of disabler abilities to increase damage per second.
• Scythe of Vyse massively increases the ganking power of Nature's Prophet by giving him a hex ability, giving him another way to control enemies' movements on top of Sprout. It also provides a large increase to his intelligence, giving him more damage and mana, as well as all-around attributes and powerful mana regeneration.
• Aghanim's Scepter augments the strength of Wrath of Nature, allowing it to deal more damage overall and sprouting Treants upon successfully killing an enemy unit, be it a creep or hero. This greatly augments Nature's Prophet's pushing power, since it will summon reinforcements upon striking down enemy lane creeps.
• Phase Boots augment Nature's Prophet's attack damage and allows him to boost his movement speed, it can make him a bigger threat in ganks since he can maneuver into position more easily after casting Teleportation, to pen in an enemy with Sprout and deal heavily damaging attacks.
• Desolator can greatly augment Nature's Prophet's offensive and pushing potential. The increased damage and armor reduction on targets make his physical attacks much deadlier, allowing him to soften up gank targets or reduce tower armor to hasten pushes.
• Bloodthorn upgrades from Orchid giving the much needed attack speed and some crit rating to amplify the end of duration after effect.
• Silver Edge, when upgraded from Shadow Blade, can give Nature's Prophet additional ganking power when used properly. By applying a break on gank targets, enemy passives can be removed from play, increasing the odds of a successful kill. Also, the bonus attributes give Nature's Prophet increased resilience.
• Drum of Endurance aids Nature's Prophet in ganks and pushes due to its active which boosts movement and attack speed of himself and allies.
• Force Staff can be a useful item to purchase on Nature's Prophet, depending on the situation. It can enhance his mobility by allowing him to quickly re-position himself, such as pushing himself over a cliff, re-positioning allies, or breaking Linken's Sphere on a gank target prior to other disables.
• Blink Dagger can tremendously increase Nature's Prophet's maneuverability and ability to evade enemy ganks. After using Teleportation to arrive at a lane for a push, Blink Dagger can be used to instantly jump away to evade any enemies attempting to rotate in. It can also be used to initiate more easily on gank targets.
• Blade Mail is a very unorthodox early-game item. However, it can be a powerful offensive item, as it provides a large amount of attack damage and intelligence. As well, the armor increases his survivability and the active is useful, as any damage incurred can be replenished by returning to the fountain with Teleportation.
• Dagon gives Nature's Prophet significantly more ganking power as he can instantly burst down a portion a gank target's health, making successful kills more likely. His ability to farm and get kills also allows him to upgrade it to allow it to remain potent throughout a match.
• Mjollnir is a strong all-around pushing and fighting item. The greatly increased attack speed as well as attack modifier allows Nature's Prophet to make short work of creep waves, and increases the potency of his attacks during ganks and teamfights. The active can be cast to increase damage output via proccing the shield.

Gameplay

Roles:	Carry Jungler Pusher Escape Nuker
Complexity:	★★☆
Playstyle:	Planted as a seed by the goddess Verodicia, and grown from the remnants of her own body, the Nature's Prophet rose on the vernal equinox to defend the verdant world. Gifted with foresight, he Teleports freely across the land to intercept and ambush trespassers. A ring of trees Sprout from the forest floor, trapping foes within its foliage. From the woods, he calls forth countless treants to act as sentient guardians. Channeling the goddess' fury, the Prophet strikes at every intruder in the land, bringing the Wrath of Nature down on all who would do harm to Verodicia's creation.

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Nature's Prophet Equipment (expand sets) Sets Bird's Stone Set Father of the Forest Fungal Lord Set Garments of the Peace-Bringer Set Guardian of the Eternal Seasons Heartwood Vanguard Set Master of Beast and Bole Set Primeval Prophet Scion of the Savage Set Signs of the Allfather Sovereign of the Woodlands The Dread Prophet The Regal Forest Lord Set Truebark Adherent Vanguard of the Emerald Insurgence Woodland Outcast Set Weapon Curled Root-Staff Enchanted Manglewood Staff Fluttering Staff Nature's Grip Savage Orchid Scythe of Ice Scythe of Vyse (Equipment) Spectrolite Staff Staff of the Enduring Colt Staff of the Lunar Tree Sufferwood Sapling Head Metal Horns Twin Bull Adornment Neck Modestly Braided Beard Shoulder Castor's Spaulder Back Coat of the Elder Grove Drape of Foliate Magery Monarch of the Sapphire Glen Arms Pine-Sage Sigil Stones Treants Call of the Dendrochron Evergreen Stalker Flowering Treant Hallowed Horde Living Nelum Ravenous Woodfang Shroomling Taunt Taunt: Make It Rain Taunt: Shredding the Lute Invisible Taunt: Victory Jig Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Turbulent Teleport Kinetic: When Nature Attacks

Trivia

• Nature's Call was called Force of Nature in DotA.
• In DotA, Nature's Prophet's name was Furion, a reference to Malfurion Stormrage from the Warcraft universe. His Dota 2 name had to be changed in order to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard. He is still called Furion by the majority of the player base and is referred to as "Furion" in the game files.
• Nature's Prophet was originally named "Tequoia" in Dota 2, but this was changed for unspecified reasons.
• "Nature's Profit" is a popular nickname for Nature's Prophet, due to his farming and splitpushing playstyle.
• Nature's Prophet's early lore concept made him the father of Anti-Mage, and Terrorblade (similar to how he was in DotA), but this idea was later scrapped.
• Nature's Prophet's spawning response, ▶️ "I speak for the trees." is a direct reference and homage to Dr. Seuss' The Lorax.
• One of Nature's Prophet's last hitting responses, ▶️ "Green is good.", is a reference to "greed is good," a quote from the 1987 film Wall Street, as well as the Warcraft III cheat code of the same name.
• One of Nature's Prophet's Illusion Rune responses, "Leaves of three, let them be," is a traditional rhyme for identifying and avoiding Poison Ivy.

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